This suite of post-16 qualifications helps learners gain a deeper understanding of construction and the built environment and prepare for work in the sector.
This suite of vocational qualifications in construction and the built environment is restricted approved qualifications and therefore is only available from City & Guilds and EAL. They feature on the Qualifications in Wales (QiW) database. This means that they are the only version of these qualifications that is eligible for public funding in Wales, and features in the Specification of Apprenticeship Standards Wales (SASW) frameworks.
The qualifications have been developed by City & Guilds and EAL. If you are not currently using qualifications provided by either organisation, and your centre would like to deliver any of these qualifications, you will need to submit a centre approval application form.
Visit the become a centre webpage for details.
The suite of qualifications will require external verification. The qualifications and assessments have been designed to get a better balance between internal and external assessment to reduce the burden of admin and volume of assessments on centres. For example, the volume and frequency of summative assessment is lower so a more holistic and synoptic approach can be adopted. This means different assessment methods, particularly for the apprenticeship. For example, the employer has a new responsibility to sign off an apprentice as competent against the national occupational standard to allow the apprentice access to the final assessment.
Yes, all of the qualifications have specification handbooks and sample assessments available through the medium of Welsh and English. All external assessments are available through the medium of Welsh, and centres and training providers are provided with support to also make internal assessment available through the medium of Welsh.
We have developed teaching and learning resources to support your delivery of the underpinning knowledge required. Resources are available, through the medium of English and Welsh, including qualification specifications and sample assessments. Visit the resources web page for guidance and information to help you successfully deliver the new qualifications.
City & Guilds and EAL have developed this Skills for Wales website as a single source of information for these qualifications.
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If you’re interested in delivering GCSE, AS and A level qualifications in construction and building services engineering, then visit WJEC’s website for more information. Centres currently registered with WJEC do not need to apply for additional approval to offer the GCSE, AS or A Level qualifications.